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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting listing the latest file Post 302291034 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 24th of February 2009 03:18:22 PM
Old 02-24-2009
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Originally Posted by Sagarddd
if i am having files as below in a directory----

-rwxrwxrwx 1 dsadm dstage 43 Nov 21 2005 CheckfreeFtpSeq.err
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dsadm dstage 37 Jun 22 2007 EDIRemitVendorAdviceSeq.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dsadm dstage 43 Jun 22 2007 EDIRemitVendorAdviceSeq.err
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10155 staff 37 May 16 2008 PSIActiveDirMasterSeq.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 10155 staff 43 May 16 2008 PSIActiveDirMasterSeq.err


can anybody tell me if i want to list the latest file i mean if i want the latest modified file.....how can i list alone that file in script,...
Code:
latest_file=$( ls -t | head -1 )

 

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dlpi_strerror(3DLPI)				  Data Link Provider Interface Library Functions			      dlpi_strerror(3DLPI)

NAME
dlpi_strerror - get DLPI error message SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -ldlpi [ library... ] #include <libdlpi.h> const char *dlpi_strerror(int err); DESCRIPTION
The dlpi_strerror() function maps the error code in err into an error message string and returns a pointer to that string. If err is DL_SYSERR, a string that describes the current value of errno is returned. Otherwise, if err corresponds to an error code listed in <libdlpi.h> or <sys/dlpi.h>, a string which describes that error is returned. The string is not dynamically allocated and must not be freed by the caller. RETURN VALUES
Upon success, the function returns a pointer to the error message string. If the error code is unknown, the string "Unknown DLPI error" is returned. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
libdlpi(3LIB), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 22 Aug 2007 dlpi_strerror(3DLPI)
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